"We're able to produce absolutely stunning websites and mobile apps with great interaction design. Interfaces that are smooth and fun and let us understand information without even trying. But when it comes to email clients, we get a bit of a boring feeling, like using an old piece of software from 10 years ago. I think we can do better. So let's do that." Great ideas and beautiful design by Tobias van Schneider, but why he would forcefully shoehorn this clearly digital UI into Mac OS X is beyond me. It has no place there. This just screams Metro.

It's a lot about being fashionable or old-fashioned. To these people influenced by social pressure, everything has to be reinvented always. Right now, they need to pollute everything with Facebook and Twitter integration and icons. For me, email works very nicely, and the "problems" he "raises" are not problems. I'm very happy with my Gmail interface and backend. Really nothing to "fix". I don't use Facebook.

I disagree - it has to do with a generation unable to tell a person that they're a moron and need to learn some basic computing fundamentals. We have a person writing an article (in said link) to solve a problem because he probably heard a friend whine about how 'email is such a pain' when in reality it is friend being a moron rather than there something necessarily wrong with the traditional email applications that exist. It reminds me of the whole arguments about folders, directories etc. and how things should be easier - when in reality what needs to be taught to Joe and Jane Sixpack are organisational skills that are necessary not only on the real world but also when using a computer to deal information - be it documents created, emails or anything else one might think of existing in a file form.